Steele: ‘My Personal Opinion Doesn’t Matter In This’ — Only Limbaugh’s Does

[kpete]

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Steele: ‘My Personal Opinion Doesn’t Matter In This’ — Only Limbaugh’s Does

This morning, RNC Chairman Michael Steele appeared on NBC’s Today Show. Host Matt Lauer asked Steele three separate times whether he agreed with Rush Limbaugh and hoped Barack Obama fails. Steele avoided answering all three times, insisting that his own opinion was inconsequential:

LAUER: I guess I’m asking you your personal opinion. Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh when he says that it’s common sense that as a conservative he wants the policies of Barack Obama to fail?

STEELE: Well, my personal opinion doesn’t matter in this. My job as the RNC chairman is to take into account all of the various views out there within our party and try to put together a strategy and a team that’s going to help us win elections. <…>

LAUER: Mr. Steele, let me try it this way. There are many Republicans out there as well as Democrats who are unemployed right now. People are hurting across this country. Republicans like Democrats are losing their homes, they’re unable to send their kids to school. Do you think those Republicans want the policies of Barack Obama to fail right now?

STEELE: I don’t think that Republicans, Democrats or Independents or anyone wants policies that redistributes the wealth of this country…

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/04/steele-my-personal-opinion-doesnt-matter-in-this-only-limbaughs-does/

[saltpoint]

1. Steele doesn't speak for me. I do in fact want policies which redistribute

wealth in this country.

The current distribution percentages blow.

[Historic NY]

3. I have no opinion...that pretty much sums up the Gop'ers.

[saltpoint]

4. Yep. They're in a bit of a muddle these days.

To say the least.

Good morning. :hi:

[LynnTheDem]

2. "Do what Rush tells you to, or you are FIRED!" Seems someone's learned his

lesson.

By the way, steele; you don't think. Period.

Take a look sometime at the opinion polls from We The People about Pres. Obama's "wealth redistribution". You'll discover why you're a true republican; dead wrong, always.

[curiousdemo]

5. He'd walked a tight rope in the interview.....

Fat Boy has these chumps repukes scared as HELL!!!! Where're the religious right in this conversation. James Dobson been pushed into the wilderness also. This party is slouching toward total enilation. Read what Barry Goldwater (Father of the Conservative Movement) said about the Repukes and the religious right in a 1994 essay, four years before he died.

http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/about/Goldwater.html

[billybob537]

6. Wow It takes a great leader,

to admit he's irrelevant!!!!
:rofl: :popcorn: :spray: :sarcasm: :banghead: :rofl: :popcorn: :spray: :sarcasm: :banghead: :rofl: :popcorn: :spray: :sarcasm: :banghead: :rofl: :popcorn: :spray: :sarcasm: :banghead: :rofl: :popcorn: :spray: :sarcasm: :banghead: :rofl: :popcorn: :spray: :sarcasm: :banghead: :rofl: :popcorn: :spray: :sarcasm: :banghead:

[underpants]

8. If his personal opinions don't matter, why is he in that position?

Is he not making decisions?
Is he really just a figurehead?
Is he a token or affirmative action pick?

Well Michael which is it? (note-an answer requires no personal opinion)

[WhoIsNumberNone]

11. Answer: C

Michael Steele is the token negro of the Republic Party.

[unapatriciated]

10. "There is a lot of popcorn going around" (@1:58)

Do you think he checks in at the DU? We do have the best the best popcorn.

:popcorn: :rofl: :popcorn: :rofl: :popcorn:


and he sure gives us a chuckle :rofl:

[underpants]

7. Only been on the job a month is his excuse?? Hmmmm sounds familiar

only another guy who has been in office what 6 weeks has yet to make anything close to the same lame excuse

[fascisthunter]

9. WOW... how Pathetic

[Amonester]

12. steele does not want policies that redistributes the wealth...

but a majority have clearly 'experienced' the disastrous consequences of the reaganite policies of doubling the national debt in less than a decade, and redistributing that artificial wealth exclusively to the already obscenely rich "richest of the riches", and they clearly said "enuf of that sh*t pile, it DOESN'T WORK"

in fact, the reality is: it could only work the other way around and steele is against that, and all his reaganites too

[wutangfan85]

13. Michael Steele Gets Dissed Repeatedly on Morning Joe

Man If you didn't see Michael Steele got dissed unmercifully on Joe Scarborough's Show "Morning Joe" after he didn't show up for a show. Trust me it's priceless! Watch it here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/04/michael-steele-gets-repea_n_171750.html